American Interest

Geopolitics is back because of the growing realization in Washington that the China pursued since the end of the Cold War has failed. China’s challenge to the United States, and the West in general, is systemic. via @aminterest the-american-interest.com/2019/09/11/as-…

Democracy is neither as culturally determined nor as fragile as today's cynics think: buff.ly/2QmNL0Y

In our interview with BI Fellow @AmitavAcharya, he argued that democracies have a clear strategic advantage over autocracies. Now, @MatthewKroenig makes that same case in a new book. via @aminterest the-american-interest.com/2020/08/19/who…

Thank you @aminterest and @b_judah for hosting the discussion on Dubai and global illicit financial flows. For more information on the role of #freezones in Dubai, see this piece by @LaksKumar_GFI : gfintegrity.org/free-for-all-z…

Thanks to @marklagon and @aminterest for the fantastic review of my new book! wp.me/p4ja0Z-NA7 @ACScowcroft @AtlanticCouncil @GUGovt @georgetownsfs

🚨 streaming now - live event from @aminterest on global corruption and the #UAE youtube.com/watch?v=V5XDAG…

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We're live! TAI Virtual Conversation: Dubai's Role in Global Illicit Financial Flows. Join us on YouTube!

First-class review in @aminterest of my @atlanticcouncil colleague Matt Kroenig’s book on why democracy can win. wp.me/p4ja0Z-NA7

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This is terrible. Voice of America is quietly gutting its international staff, pushing dozens of talented foreign journalists out of the country, with almost no notice. nationalreview.com/2020/08/voice-…

@RSI President @elilehrerdc on the left and right push to use government to regulate Big Tech—and why there is a better way: buff.ly/3hcSdv5

@larryhaasonline on how deficit hawks came to be an increasingly rare bird on the left, right, and center. buff.ly/30W5UZV

@frankvogl on Putin's People, a new book that lifts the veil on Russia's decades-long influence operations, by @CatherineBelton

Our elites learned all the wrong lessons from the end of the Cold War, writes @andrewmichta. buff.ly/3konfT0

Wargaming shows that, short of a landslide victory for Joe Biden in the upcoming elections, we may be headed for a severe constitutional crisis. @nils_gilman shares six strategies for averting the worst outcomes. buff.ly/3gBMui6

We handed over to communist China the jewels of American technology and industry, while relentlessly educating Chinese scientists and engineers. Via ⁦@aminterest⁩ the-american-interest.com/2020/08/04/thr…

What is unfolding before our eyes is a profound crisis of America’s leadership class, the result of elites becoming unmoored from the fundamentals of this nation’s founding and its traditional commitment to building a decent society. the-american-interest.com/2020/06/05/the…

With freedom of speech under assault, the West, both as a polity and as a distinct cultural inheritance, is in the throes of a fundamental battle for the survival of its democratic traditions. ⁦@MZHemingway⁩ ⁦@NanHayworth⁩ the-american-interest.com/2019/03/19/the…

Many of the conventions that safeguard the integrity of our democratic transition process rely not so much on hard laws but rather on soft norms that have historically limited the abuse of executive or presidential powers. the-american-interest.com/2020/08/06/get…